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Page 170: Moshi: Orientation and getting around
The THB buuilding by the clocktower has been given a lick of bright blue paint, smothered in adverts for a mobile phone company and is now known as the Vodacom building.
There's now a new map of Moshi, produced by Tom Kunkler, owner of the Tanzanian Coffee Lounge (see below). It costs Ts4000 and is by some distance the most accurate map of the town available. You can pick up a copy from the Coffee Lounge.
Page 170: Banks and moneychangers
The Trust (spelt 'Trast' on the sign above the door) foreign exchange bureau on Chagga St, opposite the Tanzanian Coffee Lounge (see below), was offering the best rates the last time we checked, though with Executive in the Vodacom building (formerly the THB building, as labelled in the second edition of the guide) by the clocktower coming a very close second and, according to Moshi residents, is often superior. Unfortunately, the rates at the Chase bureau on Rindi Lane have become markedly less generous since we recommended it in the second edition of the guide.
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Easy.com remains the finest internet place and now offers cheap international phone calls, at just Ts250 per minute to Europe, Australia and South Africa, and Ts200 per minute to America. Presumably the calls are made through the internet using Skype or something similar, so it's possible the phone calls could be subject to delays on the line or other problems. However, it's so cheap that it's definitely worth trying out.
New services
The Leopard Hotel now offers massages -
There's a curious office called the Take Care Center just off the Mawenzi Road on
the road leading down to the Buffalo. The office seems to exist for two reasons:
to promote the Kiliman challenge (about which, see the link elsewhere on this website);
and to offer their services as guides around Moshi. One has to say their are towns
and cities in Tanzania where one could more usefully employ the services of a guide,
but cosy, compact Moshi isn't really one of them. Still, if you fancy the company
of a local guide for a day, they only cost US$1-
Page 172: The Da'Costa Hotel has, like its Arusha namesake, changed its name and is now known as the Kilimanjaro Backpackers.
The glorious, knackered Livingstone Hotel opposite Philip Hotel has been bought and is currently undergoing renovations. If the new owners handle it correctly and keep much of the original features it could be the most beautiful building in Moshi. Though there's an awful lot of work to be done, so don't expect it to open anytime soon.
New restaurants and coffee shops
Deli Chez Incongruously large and flash place next to the decidedly low-
Tanzanian Coffee Lounge Situated just a few metres south of the Kindoroko Hotel,
on the opposite side of the road, Tanzanian Coffee Lounge is the baby of German guidebook
writer and entrepreneur Tom Kunkler and is now the place to hang out in Moshi, rivalling
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There's a small ice-
Page 180: Nightlife
Glacier, in the smarter Shanty Town district on Sekou Toure Way, about 100m past
the Lutheran Hostel, is, ironically, the hottest place in town (which, given Moshi's
paucity of decent clubs and bars, is not saying a great deal). I believe it's owned
by the same people who run Ahsante Tours. It's open every night. The Alberto Pub
continues to gather a reasonable crowd at the weekends, though is now under serious
pressure from the Malindi Club, a few metres west of Philip Hotel. There's no sign
outside -
Page 182: Ahsante Tours town-
Page 182: Akaro Tours Contrary to popular rumours, Akaro is still running. The company
has had a lot of problems recently since the death of its much-
Page 183: The Kilele Africa offices opposite the Immigration office have gone.
Page 184: Mauly Tours have moved, and now have their Moshi offices next to the Immigration office on Boma Road.
Page 186: Shah Tours offices are now on Sekou Toure Way, on the way to Shanty Town.
Page 182: Swiwsco Safari's (tel 027-
Page 186: Tangyanika Travels office on Rindi Lane has closed.
New agency
African Spoonbill Tours (tel 0713 408 291, web www.africanspoonbilltours.com) is a new operator located on the first floor of the NHC Building on Rindi Lane near Stanbic. To find it, look for Tangyanika Travels on the Moshi plan in the second edition; it lies just to the south of there. (Tangyanika Travels, as stated below, has now disappeared.) It has received one recommendation from readers.
Eco Tours (tel 027-
Kinyonga Tours and Safaris (tel 027-
Page 188: Buses
The offices of Dar Express has moved just a few metres east from its location in the guide (where it stood in the forecourt of a petrol station), and now stands to the other side of the Liberty Bar. The Scandinavian offices have moved too. From the Coffee Shop (the original one on Hill St that's mentioned in the guide, not the Tanzanian Coffee Lounge that we write about in this update), head west, cross Market Street and continue up the hill, taking the first left. The offices are on your right after a few metres.
The offices of the new Kilimanjaro Express service (tel 0754 864 244) can be found next to Air Tanzania on the Boma Road. Their buses to Dar leave at 8.30 and 9.30am and cost Ts18,000.
Page 189: Flights and shuttle buses
Both Precision Air and Air Tanzania now say that they refuse to allow people without tickets for their flights to use their shuttle bus service to Kilimanjaro Airport. I'd be surprised, however, that they would refuse you if they had spare room on their buses and you thrust a few thousand shilingi in their direction.